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Linli x Theron
Have some ambiguous Theron guilt (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
This is the last thing he hears: Her voice hoarse with pain and with calling to him yelling, "I love you. Please."
Theron wakes up to the sound echoing in his head and rolls out of bed to let the cold refocus him. He still thinks he might be sick.
He spends enormous amounts of time ignoring all the ways this can end in her suffering more. Her life was full of it before she took the mantle of Commander and it's only grown worse since then. And now Theron has added to it.
But he has goals and he learned the hard way to focus on those to the exclusion of all else. Even the hurt in her voice everytime she speaks now. She's never shown it before, never been this openly vulnerable.
He knows he's taken something from her that she can't get back. Even if he just goes back and apologizes and lets her forgive him, he's taken something from her that she will never, ever have back. It's part of what keeps him going. The damage is already done.
He can't fix it anymore. The only way left is forward.